AP/TS SET 2013- ENGLISH Paper – II

ANDRA PRADESH TELANGANA -SET 2013- ENGLISH Paper – II

1. “ ’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” – Who said this ?

(A) John Webster

(B) Lord Tennyson

(C) Robert Browning

(D) William Congreve



2. The culture of Umuofia in Things Fall Apart is

(A) Christian

(B) Igbo

(C) Zulu

(D) Yoruba



3. The title of Chinua Achebe’s novel No Longer at Ease has been taken from T.S. Eliot’s poem

(A) Hysteria

(B) The Journey of the Magi

(C) The Waste Land

(D) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock



4. Who coined the phrase “Egotistical Sublime” ?

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) P.B. Shelley

(C) S.T. Coleridge

(D) John Keats



5. Match the critical works with the authors.

I. Chinua Achebe 1. Is there a Text in this class ?

II. Stanley Fish 2. The Mad Woman in the Attic

III. Elaine Showalter 3. Colonialist Criticism

IV. Sandra Gilbert 4. Towards a and Susan Gabar Feminist Poetics

I II III IV

(A) 4 2 1 3

(B) 2 4 3 1

(C) 1 3 2 4

(D) 3 1 4 2



6. Arrange the following in chronological order

I. Midnight’s Children

II. Far From the Madding Crowd

III. Look Back in Anger

IV. Lord of the Flies

(A) I, IV, III, II

(B) II, III, I, IV

(C) II, IV, III, I

(D) I, III, IV, II



7. Dryden’s All for Love is based on

(A) Romeo and Juliet

(B) Antony and Cleopatra

(C) Othello

(D) Twelfth Night



8. The British novelist Doris Lessing was born in

(A) England

(B) Ireland

(C) America

(D) Persia



9. “Virtue Rewarded” is the subtitle of the novel

(A) Moll Flanders

(B) Clarissa

(C) Shamela

(D) Pamela



10. “The Scholar Gipsy” is based on the story mentioned in the book The Vanity of Dogmatizing written by

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Glanville

(C) John Ruskin

(D) William Blake



11. Match the African American Writers with their Novels.

I. Richard Wright 1. Invisible Man

II. Ralph Ellison 2. Go Tell It On the Mountain

III. James Baldwin 3. A Raisin in the Sun

IV. Lorraine Hansberry 4. Native Son

I II III IV

(A) 4 1 2 3

(B) 2 3 4 1

(C) 1 4 3 2

(D) 3 2 1 4



12. A Dance of Forests is written by

(A) Chinua Achebe

(B) Vijay Tendulkar

(C) Alice Walker

(D) Wole Soyinka



13. Which writer made the following statement ?

“To be an Indian in England was distinctive, in Egypt it was more so. Now in Bombay I entered a shop or a restaurant and waited for a special quality of response. And there was nothing. It was like being denied part of my reality.”

(A) Salman Rushdie

(B) Nissim Ezekiel

(C) V.S. Naipaul

(D) Nirad C. Choudhari



14. Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer is dedicated to

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Lord Chesterfield

(C) Congreve

(D) James III



15. Who called Shelley, “ a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain” ?

(A) Walter Pater

(B) A.C. Swinburne

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) W.B. Yeats



16. The author of Nation and Narration is

(A) Homi Bhabha

(B) Edward Said

(C) Franz Fanon

(D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak



17. Inter-textuality is a term which suggests that

(A) an author’s intention is impossible to decide

(B) textual meaning cannot be fixed

(C) a text’s meaning is related to the meanings of other texts

(D) reading of a text requires making assumptions about the author



18. Match the following :

I. Philip Sidney 1. The Advancement of Learning

II. Francis Bacon 2. An Apology for Poetry

III. John Dryden 3. An Essay on Criticism

IV. Alexander Pope 4. An Essay on Dramatic Poesy

I II III IV

(A) 4 2 1 3

(B) 1 3 2 4

(C) 3 4 1 2

(D) 2 1 4 3



19. Match the following :

i. Thomas Kyd 1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

ii. Marlowe 2. The Poetaster

iii. Ben Jonson 3. She Stoops to Conquer

iv. Oliver Goldsmith 4. Spanish Tragedy

i ii iii iv

(A) 2 4 1 3

(B) 4 1 2 3

(C) 1 2 3 4

(D) 1 3 4 2



20. Who, among the following, made the statement, “Poetry is the Criticism of Life” ?

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Sidney

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) Wordsworth



21. Match the following :

I. Cliche 1. Omission which is implied

II. Ellipsis 2. Overstatement

III. Genre 3. Overused expression

IV. Hyperbole 4. Form of writing

I II III IV

(A) 2 4 3 1

(B) 3 1 4 2

(C) 1 3 2 4

(D) 4 2 1 3



22. “I will show you fear in a handful of dust” - this line is from T.S. Eliot’s

(A) Murder in the Cathedral

(B) Gerontion

(C) The Hollow Men

(D) The Waste Land



23. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otrando initiated a literary tradition called

(A) Hunnish epic

(B) Gothic fiction

(C) Epistolary novel

(D) Medieval romance



24. The expression “eloquent silence” is an example of

(A) Allusion 

(B) Eponym

(C) Oxymoron 

(D) Metonymy



25. A dactyl is a metrical foot consisting of

(A) two syllables 

(B) three syllables

(C) four syllables 

(D) five syllables



26. “It is awfully hard work doing nothing” is an example of

(A) Irony (B) Conceit

(C) Metaphor (D) Paradox



27. A sonnet is written in

(A) Spondaic tetrameter

(B) Iambic pentameter

(C) Iambic tetrameter

(D) Iambic trimeter



28. Pope’s “An Essay on Man” is a

(A) Play (B) Critical essay

(C) Poem (D) Letter



29. What does the phrase “White Man’s Burden”, coined by Kipling, refer to ?

(A) Britain’s manifest destiny to colonise the world

(B) the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the people of the world

(C) the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world

(D) the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the world’s problems



30. The line, “There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow” occurs in Shakespeare’s play

(A) Hamlet

(B) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(C) Macbeth

(D) Othello



31. “Ripeness is all” is a line from

(A) Hamlet 

(B) Macbeth

(C) Othello 

(D) King Lear



32. Who among the following does NOT belong to the Elizabethan age ?

(A) Samuel Johnson

(B) Thomas Middleton

(C) Robert Greene

(D) Christopher Marlow



33. Which of the following is NOT a work by Samuel Becket ?

(A) Waiting for Godot

(B) Endgame

(C) Happy Days

(D) Emperor Jones



34. The author of Mr. Sammler’s Planet is

(A) Arnold Wesker

(B) Harold Pinter

(C) John Arden

(D) Saul Bellow



35. Which statement is NOT true about Lord Jim ?

(A) It was originally published as a serial

(B) Marlow is the narrator of the story

(C) Jim’s sir name is never disclosed in the novel

(D) It was Joseph Conrad’s first novel



36. Match the following :

I. Jane Eyre 1. Tom Stoppard

II. Wild Sargossa Sea 2. Joseph Conrad

III. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 3. Charlotte Bronte

IV. Heart of Darkness 4. Jean Rhys

I II III IV

(A) 1 3 2 4

(B) 2 1 4 3

(C) 3 4 1 2

(D) 1 2 4 3



37. What stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem “Ode to the West Wind” ?

(A) Rime Royal

(B) Ottava Rima

(C) Terza Rima

(D) Spenserian Stanza



38. Which of the following books was translated by John Keats ?

(A) Aeneid 

(B) Iliad

(C) Odyssey 

(D) Vulgate



39. The town mentioned in the poem “Lady of Shallot” by Tennyson is

(A) London 

(B) York

(C) Camelot 

(D) Oxford



40. What is common among D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris and Swinburne ?

(A) They are all painters

(B) They are all Victorian novelists

(C) They all belong to the Pre-Raphaelite movement

(D) They all belong to the Oxford movement



41. Identify the poem which is NOT by Coleridge

(A) Christabel

(B) Lucan

(C) The Ancient Mariner

(D) Kubla Khan



42. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” – these lines are from

(A) John Dryden

(B) John Donne

(C) Alexander Pope

(D) Shakespeare



43. Who said “ Money makes a good servant, but a bad master” ?

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Bacon

(C) Dr. Johnson

(D) T.S. Eliot



44. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play ?

(A) Everyman

(B) Romeo and Juliet

(C) The Duchess of Malfi

(D) Gorbuduc



45. Match the following :

I. Laurence Sterne 1. Candide

II. Henry Mackenjie 2. The Vicar of Wakefield

III. Oliver Goldsmith 3. Tristram Shandy

IV. Voltaire 4. The Man of Feeling

I II III IV

(A) 2 1 4 3

(B) 4 2 3 1

(C) 1 3 2 4

(D) 3 4 1 2



46. Frankenstein is a/an

(A) long poem by Shelley

(B) play by John Dryden

(C) essay by Edmund Burke

(D) novel by Mary Shelley



47. The characters Gwendolen, Cecily and Lady Bracknell figure in the play

(A) Lady Windermere’s Fan

(B) A Woman of No Importance

(C) The Importance of Being Earnest

(D) An Ideal Husband



48. Which of the following texts is NOT by Wilkie Collins ?

(A) The Moonstone

(B) The Woman in White

(C) Three Musketeers

(D) No Name



49. Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Epic Theatre’

I. appeals to emotion

II. alienates audience from characters

III. appeals to reason

IV. offers solution

(A) I and II are correct

(B) I and IV are correct

(C) II and IV are correct

(D) II and III are correct



50. Match the following :

i. The Golden Bough 1. Northrop Frye

ii. The Anatomy of 2. Derrida Criticism

iii. Of Grammatology 3. Freud

iv. Interpretation of Dreams 4. James G. Frazer

i ii iii iv

(A) 4 1 2 3

(B) 4 2 1 3

(C) 2 3 1 4

(D) 4 2 3 1

ANSWERS

1. (B) Lord Tennyson
2. (B) Igbo
3. (B) The Journey of the Magi
4. (D) John Keats
5. (D) 3 - 1 - 4 - 2
6. (C) II - IV - III - I
7. (B) Antony and Cleopatra
8. (D) Persia
9. (D) Pamela
10. (B) Glanville
11. (A) 4 - 1 - 2 - 3
12. (D) Wole Soyinka
13. (C) V.S. Naipaul
14. (A) Dr. Johnson
15. (C) Matthew Arnold
16. (A) Homi Bhabha
17. (C) A text’s meaning is related to the meanings of other texts
18. (D) 2 - 1 - 4 - 3
19. (B) 4 - 1 - 2 - 3
20. (C) Matthew Arnold
21. (B) 3 - 1 - 4 - 2
22. (D) The Waste Land
23. (B) Gothic fiction
24. (C) Oxymoron
25. (B) Three syllables
26. (D) Paradox
27. (B) Iambic pentameter
28. (C) Poem
29. (B) The moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the people of the world
30. (A) Hamlet
31. (D) King Lear
32. (A) Samuel Johnson
33. (D) Emperor Jones
34. (D) Saul Bellow
35. (D) It was Joseph Conrad’s first novel (Incorrect statement; Conrad’s first novel was Almayer’s Folly)
36. (C) 3 - 4 - 1 - 2
37. (C) Terza Rima
38. (C) Odyssey
39. (C) Camelot
40. (C) They all belong to the Pre-Raphaelite movement
41. (B) Lucan
42. (C) Alexander Pope
43. (B) Bacon
44. (C) The Duchess of Malfi
45. (D) 3 - 4 - 1 - 2
46. (D) Novel by Mary Shelley
47. (C) The Importance of Being Earnest
48. (C) Three Musketeers (This is by Alexandre Dumas, not Wilkie Collins)
49. (D) II and III are correct
50. (A) 4 - 1 - 2 - 3

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